Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t make enough, wants pay raises for Congress

Fox News reported Monday that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez blamed low Congressional pay for the Washington revolving door and the power of lobbyists.

Raising Congressional pay “may not be politically popular to say but honestly this is why there’s so much pressure to turn to lobbying firms and to cash in on member service after people leave because precisely of this issue,” she said, according to Fox News.

Ocasio Cortez says efforts to hike Congressional pay “may not be politically popular to say but honestly this is why there’s so much pressure to turn to lobbying firms and to cash in on member service after people leave because precisely of this issue.”
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 11, 2019

She and other rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 per year, a number that hasn’t changed since 2009. The House speaker ($223,500) and the two party leaders in each chamber ($193,400) make a bit more.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat and a socialist, also reportedly blamed domestic political opponents for low Congressional pay, saying that resistance to Congressional pay increases is “superficial.”

“You can you can vote against pay increases all you want … it’ll look good on its surface, she said, according to Fox News, adding that voting to raise Congressional pay “may not be great optics … your opponents could use it as a political exploit as a political issue.”

Ocasio-Cortez says efforts to hike Congressional pay are “superficial. You can you can vote against pay increases all you want..it’ll look good on its surface” & voting yea “may not be great optics..your opponents could use it as a political exploit as a political issue.“
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 11, 2019

She is just like all the young people of today, they show up for the job more than a week, on time and have not missed a day and want a raise. to hell with the fact that they don’t know how to do the job they were hired for and take time or effort to learn it.

I’m glad this twit brought up the subject of congressional pay! They get too much as it is. First, how about if the government bought basic housing units for the representatives and senators to live in? Not dorms, necessarily, but certainly not lavish. Then, deduct the value of these residences from the pay. If they don’t like the accommodations, they are free to live elsewhere — but that would be on their own dime, and regardless, there would be NO diverting the per diem value to their own pocket. (This is just like long-suffering taxpayers who pay for public school support even when they send their kids to private school so they will GET an education.) Second, let them fly in military aircraft when it is AVAILABLE; not on call and not for their specific benefit. If they have to travel by commercial plane, let it be stand-by and the reimbursement based on where they have to go. For AOC to go from DC to the Bronx, for example, would be lots less than Schiff(less) or Mad Maxine going back and forth from the Swamp to Kommunist Kalifornia. If there isn’t any military transport available, and they can’t “afford” a plane, train or bus ticket, let ’em stay in DC and do whatever they call “work.”

When I was in Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, all these other guys were getting travel money to go to far-away locations and were bragging about how much they got. Me? I was going down the road to Kelly AFB and I got bus fare — 17 cents.

Potential Congressional members know what the salary is when they run for office. If it isn’t enough find other means of earning a living.
How about they legislate a law that pays according to how much is accomplished? With their.current lack of accomplishments they aren’t even worth minimum wage.

Someone should tell this former bartender(ness) to, “Get off the table, Mable, the quarter’s for the beer”. I’ve noticed that despite a degree in economics from a Boston area institute of higher learning, her grasp of the English Language is tenuous at best. (Unsurprisingly, so is her grasp of economics.)

“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.” -Joseph Sobran

Frankly, what I’d do is to put every Member of Congress on a per diem allowance just sufficient to pay for meals and (reasonable) lodging and pay them NO salary at all. Being a member was not originally intended to be a full-time job and members were expected to return to their homes and occupations at the end of a congressional term. Even granting that the world is a lot more complex today than it was at the Founding, the idea of citizen legislators is still valid.

Are new politicos all seem to believe that they are a reality show. They seem to think everybody is so interested in their lives.
I guess they wish to have their fame and fortune without doing a thing rather they whine how bad their life is. Grow up snowflake and apply for a new job because yours will gone in the next election

Well, the bug eyed donkey face wants a pay raise. She accused Amazon of being greedy and ran them out of her state. Virginia thanks her for that. Now she isn’t happy with a six figure income. Sounds pretty greedy to me. Most people in the middle class live on less than $100,000.00 a year. And those that make more is usually a husband and wife’s income combined. Then you look at the bar tramp’s free benefits, 30 days paid vacation, free medical (includes dental & vision) with NO co-pay, free transportation, discounts on clothing and food. All she has to do to earn all that is open her fat yap and spew out stupidity. Look at what a private in the Army gets, good benefits but pay that’s barely above the food stamp level and he/she has to be a bullet stopper, human mine sweeper, target for enemy aircraft and artillery, and the threat of being run over by an enemy tank or choked to death from nerve gas or fried by napalm. AOC has the face of a jackass and the brain of recycled puke.

They just gave themselves a raise. I would love a job that I work 3 days a week, could give myself a raise and have the summer and a few weeks off for a holiday.

The reason that they need more money is greed. All new ones get a button installed that tells them to start working for reelection. Not to worry about doing the countries business, it can be pushed to next year and just blame the other party.

We should just dump them all, take their benefits and make them work for a living, like the rest of us.

I suspect that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demanding that the Congress receive a raise because she feels overwhelmed by the difficulty of her job. She has discovered just how challenging it is to promote the Green New Deal to dismantle our prosperous economy and institute draconian economic regulations that will usher in a socialist paradise where a lower standard of living will be made available to all except for the governing elite. It should come as no surprise that a radical leftist politician like Representative Ocasio-Cortez would demand to receive more of our tax dollars so she can increase her efforts to confiscate even more of our wealth.

This is the craziest person right up there with Pelosi and old Hillary to be in the government…IF ANYTHING THEY ALL NEED TO BE REDUCED IN SALARY TO WHAT IS DECENT, They don’t do the jobs they were HIRED to do and think of themselves as better than anyone and can do as they please instead of obey the Constitution, laws of the land and act like real Americans!!
AOC is our of her mind and very sick…NOT a patriot in the slightest and wants what is insane in all ways!

Pay Raise!?!?!? When have they started working yet!?!? I haven’t seen them do ONE thing for any American Citizen yet! They only people that have benefited from the Democrats have been the Illegals!! So let them pay their pay raise!! Better yet, let the illegals pay their Salary because they no longer work for the American People!

I have to put my two cents in on this one:
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Congress was never meant to be a career. People should go there to serve and then GO HOME. We have 300+ million people in the U.S. – I find it hard to believe that the current group in office is the best we can do, especially the ones who have been there for decades.
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Term limits. No one can serve more than 2 terms in any office.
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We should provide congressional housing for them while they’re there. A gated condo community with security and exercise facilities. Provide secure transportation services from the congressional housing to the capital complex. When one representative leaves office, they move out and their replacement moves in.
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Provide them with meals at the capital while they’re working.
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We need a constitutional amendment that says they get paid what the average American individual gets paid. If they want a raise, they improve the economy so that the average American individual income goes up. If the economy goes down and the average American income goes down with it, so does their pay. Nobody should go to congress to get rich.

She is making probably four times as much as me, and I help pay her…Congress doesn’t deserve a raise, their pay should be cut. Shame on her. She wants to dump a socialist way of life on us, and whine that she isn’t getting a big enough cut. She is a spoiled rotten bully! And trust me, Socialism is not going to be all wine and roses and wonderful homes and well, you get the picture. Ignorance is bliss!

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